Email Scandals
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Email Scandals, Law Reviews, Law Schools, New Jersey, Politics
2L Bitter Over Law Review Snub Illustrates Why He Wasn't EIC Material
It so happens that we are right in the middle of election season for law review boards. At top law schools around the country, 2Ls who want to be Supreme Court clerks — or Supreme Court justices, or even presidents — are finding out if they’ll be able to include “Editor in Chief: Law Review” […] -
Email Scandals, Sports, Vicious Infighting
This Is Why Law Students Shouldn't Play Sports
You might think that watching law students play sports would be like watching U. Conn. and Butler play basketball. You know, undersized, intense people playing in an ugly and painful style. You’d think that watching law students play a pick-up game of 21 would be indistinguishable from watching Butler unsuccessfully try to throw a ball […] - Sponsored
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Email Scandals, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms, Weirdness
Founding Partner Warns: 'Get Your Ass To Work'
Did you show up to work on time this morning? Did you? You better show up to work on time, every day, or else Gary K. Shipman will come and get you. Don’t know who Gary Shipman is? Well, you are about to. He has his own small law firm in North Carolina, and he […]
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Biglaw, Email Scandals, listserv, Partner Issues, Rudeness, Screw-Ups
More Proof That Lawyers Will Fight Over Anything
Sometimes you just have to whip it out and wait for somebody to bring over a ruler. That’s just a part of life. But some lawyers seem to sit around all day just waiting for an opportunity to drop drawers and call for the chains. Don’t believe me? Take a look at this guy from […] -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Money, Public Interest, Student Loans, Travel / Vacation, Weirdness
The Skadden Associate Who Picked Up and Moved to Nepal: An Update
On Wednesday we wrote about the great departure email sent out by Brian Emeott, a former corporate associate at Skadden in Chicago. Emeott, a 2004 graduate of Harvard College and 2008 graduate of Harvard Law School, picked up and moved to Kathmandu, Nepal. Brian’s wife, Claudine Emeott, resigned from her own job in December and […] -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Email Scandals, Travel / Vacation, Weirdness
Another Great Departure Memo: Skadden Associate Trades Chicago for... Nepal?
Young lawyers of Chicago: What the heck is going on with you people? You seem to be losing it. Has the brutal Chicago winter driven you crazy? Do we need to put The People’s Therapist on the next plane to O’Hare? Let’s look at the evidence. You’re quitting prestigious and lucrative law firm jobs to […] -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Email Scandals, Exercise, Travel / Vacation
Want Out of Biglaw? Take a Hike!
Reading law firm departure memos is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. Sometimes you taste bitterness. Sometimes the flavor is spicy hot. Sometimes you get a little Costa Rica crunch. And sometimes you get… this, which was sent to everyone at Sidley Austin yesterday by an associate leaving […] -
Biglaw, Blind Item, Cocaine / Crack, Drugs, Email Scandals, Partner Issues
Biglaw Blind Item: What Does It Look Like When A Partner Gets Fired?
We’ve already shown you what it looks like when an associate gets laid off from a law firm. It’s not pretty. What does it look like when a law firm fires — or tries to fire — a partner? Well, that is even uglier…. - Sponsored
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Email Scandals, Law Schools, listserv, Ridiculousness
Law Students Tangle Over Prestige, Machine Guns, and Books; Hilarity Ensues
The best time for law school emails is right before spring semester finals. People have been stressed for an entire year and things are just about to get worse, so you see law students just breaking down. The Crimson DNA affair came to light last April; hopefully we’ll get something good this year too. The […] -
Biglaw, Email Scandals, Technology
ATL Public Service Announcement: Watch Out for 'Brian Willmer' of 'Willmer Hale'
Is “phishing” running rampant throughout the legal community? A few weeks ago, Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School fell victim to a phishing scam. As the HLS Help Desk helpfully explained at the time, “Phishing emails are fraudulent email messages claiming to be from a legitimate source that ask you to send confidential information […] -
Comment of the Day, Email Scandals, Quote of the Day, Sex, Sex Scandals
Comment of the Day: Gavel Bang, Indeed
Yesterday we posted a racy email recounting a male associate’s supposed one-night stand with a female partner. The general consensus was that the story was fiction. Here’s more support for that view, from our Comment of the Day…. -
Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Email Scandals, Labor / Employment, Screw-Ups, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sexual Harassment
A Racy (But Fake?) Email About An Associate's One-Night Stand With A Married Female Partner
Last week, we started hearing about an amazing email making the rounds. In this email message, a male associate at a large law firm allegedly described, in excruciating detail, a supposed sexual encounter with a married female partner at the firm. Apparently the raunchy email was making like an STD and going viral within the […] -
Email Scandals, Law Professors, Law Schools, Orin Kerr, Technology
HLS Potpourri: Professor Nesson Victim of Phishing, While Students Fish for Constitutional Protection from the TSA
First of all, Happy Chanukah. May your candles burn bright. It is certainly possible that some lowly internet hacker was trying to take advantage of some holiday compassion when he or she hacked the email of Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson. Nesson is a well-known figure in “internet and the law” circles — as […]
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Akin Gump, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Email Scandals, Partner Issues, Rudeness
Akin Gump Partner Pens Email Fantasy About Firing Delinquent Time Keepers
Nothing says “Biglaw” quite like an old-fashioned partner threat. Biglaw partners, a self-important bunch if there ever was one, generally do little to mask their huge egos. But when those egos express themselves in the form of threats against underlings, well, that’s when you learn why people get paid $160,000 right out of school. You […] -
Biglaw, Email Scandals, Partner Issues, Screw-Ups
Skadden Partner Accidentally Emails Confidential Evaluations to Entire Department
Those of you who have been in the legal profession long enough remember the tale of Jonas Blank. While working as a summer associate at Skadden, he inadvertently sent an irreverent email, intended for a single friend, to the firm’s entire underwriting group (partners included). Whoops. But the firm was forgiving of young Jonas. He […] -
Drinking, Email Scandals, listserv, Sex
Northwestern Law Student Emails Hand-Job Offer to Entire Law School
You know how cars can be equipped with an ignition interlock device that prevents the engine from being started if the driver is intoxicated? Can we get one of those thingies for the personal computer, Blackberry, or any other device people can use to send email? Because I’m pretty sure a Northwestern Law student could […] -
Alston & Bird, Document Review, Email Scandals, Technology
Dude, You're Getting A Dell... Runaround?
Discovery disputes, like a certain other thing, happen. But it’s not often that these happenings make the pages of the New York Times. An article on the front page of the business section reports: Dell has been accused of withholding evidence, including e-mails among its top executives, in a lawsuit over faulty computers it sold […] -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Email Scandals, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Email Etiquette: The Four Commandments?
There are many big questions in life. For example, email etiquette. “To” or “dear” or just a name? “Best” or “best regards” or “sincerely” or just your initials? Instant response or tasteful 15-minute delay? Like many of the big questions, it’s hard to come up with definitive answers. But one summer associate has a core […] -
Email Scandals, Job Searches, Law Schools
Emory Law Student Lament: 'We don’t need donuts, we need jobs.'
When times are tough, the tough get… whiny? A law student at Emory is frustrated by the lack of jobs being offered up by Career Services and circulated an email airing his or her discontent. Addressed to “My Fellow Emory Law Students,” it lambasts the employees charged with helping Emory grads land jobs. It’s available […] -
Biglaw, Email Scandals
Emails to Partners That Can Never Be Sent
Here at Above the Law, we like to provide a service to our readers. Sometimes things happen at a law firm that you just can’t talk about to your colleagues. But you can always tell us. Last week, we corresponded with a frustrated attorney. Despite the fact that he’s quite senior and has changed firms […]